Legendary Star Wars Artist Greg Hildebrandt Has Passed Away

Iconic phantasy and science-fiction illustrator Greg Hildebrandt passed distant yesterday astatine the property of 85.

Hildebrandt’s pop-culture works included the “style B” poster for the UK merchandise of Star Wars, arsenic good arsenic posters for Clash of the Titans, Barbarella, and Young Frankenstein—the second 2 alongside his precocious duplicate member and predominant collaborator, Tim Hildebrandt. He besides illustrated galore trading cards for Magic: The Gathering and Marvel Masterworks, painted artwork for Dungeons & Dragons and the authoritative Lord of the Rings calendars, contributed covers for IDW’s Star Wars comics and issues of OMNI, Amazing Stories, and Heavy Metal mag and designed the medium artwork for Black Sabbath’s Mob Rules—as good arsenic and respective releases by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

On the literate broadside of things, Hildebrandt additionally illustrated his ain book, Greg Hildebrandt’s Favorite Fairy Tales, arsenic good arsenic works related to Dracula, Robin Hood, Terry Brooks’ The Sword of Shannara, Alice successful Wonderland, Peter Pan, Peter Cottontail’s Surprise, The Wizard of Oz, The Phantom of the Opera, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Hildebrandt’s passing prompting an outpouring of effect connected societal media from luminaries including Gail Simone, Paul Levitz, Jimmy Palmiotti, Jo Duffy, Pat Brosseau, CrissCross, Rob Liefeld, and Tony DiTerlizzi with surely much to follow. We’ll permission you with a tiny fistful of immoderate our idiosyncratic favorites of the man’s works. May helium remainder successful peace.

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